james 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

james 2:26 For just as the body without [the] spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

26. Faith is a spiritual thing: works are material. Hence we might expect faith to answer to the spirit, works to the body. But James reverses this. He therefore does not mean that faith in all cases answers to the body; but the FORM of faith without the working reality answers to the body without the animating spirit. It does not follow that living faith derives its life from works, as the body derives its life from the animating spirit.

james 2:26 For just as the body without [the] spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

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